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  • Ardour is licensed in terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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  • Ardour (and all advanced digital audio software) will work better if you use a professional or semi-professional audio interface that is capable of simultaneous playback and recording. The use of separate devices (e.g. USB microphones combined with your builtin audio) is.

Mar 31, 2018 Ardour is a multichannel hard disk recorder (HDR) and digital audio workstation (DAW). It can be used to control, record, edit and run complex audio setups. Ardour supports pro-audio interfaces through the ALSA project, which provides high quality, well designed device drivers and API's for audio I/O under Linux.

Digital audio workstation programs can be really useful to boost your productivity and streamline your workflow while dealing with audio files. Among the many popular digital audio workstation programs available, Ardour is one of the most popular and functional programs that are available for Windows, Linux, and for users of other major platforms. Ardour is mainly targetted towards core audio enthusiasts, audio engineers, etc., and you will not even find a hard time dealing with Ardour, even if you are a noob. Ardour also comes with the JACK Audio Connection Kit, which has the unique ability to export audio output from a program to another program, like Ardour.

Ardour is completely free to use, and the installation of Ardoir is a piece of cake on Windows computers, but it isn’t that straightforward when it comes to the installation of the same on Linux platform, you have to download it from the official repository, and carry out some extra steps, right at the time of downloading and installing it. So, today, I will talk about, how you can download and install Ardour on your Linux computer, running Ubuntu. After you install Ardour, you can now easily convert your computer running Linux, into a powerful audio workstation.

So, without any further delay, let’s get started with the installation of Ardour on your Linux computer running Ubuntu.

Installing Ardour on Ubuntu

Step 1: Open a Linux terminal, and type in the following command to update the list of packages that could be downloaded and installed.

Step 2: After the update is successfully completed, type in the following command to start the installation of Ardour on your computer.

Step 3: After the installation starts, a list of dependencies, and the required space for the installation of the digital audio workstation Ardour will be displayed to you. Ardour will consume around 65 MB for the installation. Just type ‘y’, and hit the enter key to carry on with the installation.

Step 4: The installation will take some time, and after some time, you can choose, whether you want to download and configure ‘Jack’, which I have talked about, in the beginning. You can skip downloading and configuring ‘Jack’, as well, if necessary. Depending upon that, select ‘Yes’ or ‘No’, and hit the enter key.

Step 5: Now, the installation will continue, and once done, you can open it from the apps section, or with the help of your default launcher.

Step 6: After the installation is complete, and you open it for the first time, you just have to change the settings and configure the program to start using it.

Step 7: You can choose the most appropriate setting for yourself to start using Ardour. You have to choose the default location for all your audio projects, The monitoring choices, which I will recommend you keep the default. However, if you have some specific requirements, you should change the settings to make the ends meet.

Step 8: Now you can start using Ardour and you with audio files and recordings as per your requirements by creating a new session within an existing or new audio template.

So, that was all about how you can install Ardour. The usage is going to be the same on all Linux distributions, and the initial setup after you have downloaded Ardour is also the same. Do you have any questions? Feel free to comment on the same below.

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Ardour
Original author(s)Paul Davis
Developer(s)David Robillard, Robin Gareus, Nick Mainsbridge, Colin Fletcher, Ben Loftis, Tim Mayberry.
Initial release23 September 2005
Stable release6.3 (September 7, 2020; 36 days ago) [±]
Preview release6.0-rc1 (April 19, 2020; 5 months ago) [±]
Repository
Written inC++ (GTK+)
Operating systemFreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows
Available inEnglish
TypeDigital audio workstation
LicenseGPLv2+
Websitewww.ardour.org

Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application that runs on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD and Microsoft Windows. Its primary author is Paul Davis, who was also responsible for the JACK Audio Connection Kit. Ardour is intended to be digital audio workstation software suitable for professional use.[citation needed]

Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version two or any later version), Ardour is free software.[1]

Ardour 6.3 was released on September 7th 2020.

Features[edit]

Recording[edit]

Ardour's recording abilities are limited by only the hardware it is run on; there are no built-in limits in the software. When recording on top of existing material, Ardour can do latency compensation, positioning the recorded material where it was intended to be when recording it. Monitoring options include self-monitoring, use of external hardware (a feature dependent on sound card support) or specialised product; e.g. JACK Audio Connection Kit. Self-monitoring makes it possible to apply plug-in effects to the signal while recording in real-time. Using the audio server JACK, Ardour can record both from the audio card and compatible software concurrently.[citation needed]

Mixing[edit]

Ardour supports an arbitrary number of tracks and buses through an 'anything to anywhere' routing system. All gain, panning and plug-in parameters can be automated. All sample data is mixed and maintained internally in 32-bit floating point format.[2]

Editing[edit]

Ardour supports dragging, trimming, splitting and time-stretching recorded regions with sample-level resolution and has a possibility to layer regions. It includes a crossfade editor and beat detection. Ardour has unlimited undo/redo and a snapshot feature for storing the current state of a session to a file for future reference.[citation needed]

Mastering[edit]

Ardour can be used as an audio mastering environment. Its integration with the JACK Audio Connection Kit makes it possible to use mastering tools such as JAMin to process the audio data. The output of Ardour's mixer can be sent 3rd party audio-processing software to be processed and/or recorded. It can also export TOC and CUE files, which allows for the creation of audio CDs.[citation needed]

Compatibility[edit]

Ardour attempts to adhere to industry standards, such as SMPTE/MTC, Broadcast Wave Format, MIDI Machine Control and XML.[citation needed]

Ardour has been tested on GNU/Linux, on the x86-64, x86, PowerPC and ARM (for at least version 3) architectures, Solaris, macOS on Intel and PowerPC, Windows on Intel architectures and FreeBSD. It takes advantage of multiprocessor and multicore SMP and real-time features of all of these operating systems.[citation needed]

Pre-built binaries of Ardour 6.x are available for Linux, macOS and Windows.

Plug-ins[edit]

Ardour relies on plug-ins to enable many features, from audio effects processing to dynamic control. It supports the following plugin format and platform combinations:[3]LV2 on Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Windows; AudioUnits on macOS; Steinberg's VST2 on Linux, macOS and Windows; LADSPA on Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Windows. It is theoretically possible to use plugins created for Windows in the VST2 format on Linux with the help of Wine, but the project team does not recommend it.[4]

Import and export[edit]

Ardour supports exporting whole sessions or parts of sessions and importing audio clips into sessions from more than 30 different audio file formats.[citation needed] This can be done using Ardour's built-in audio file database manager or directly from an ordinary file browser.[citation needed]

Supporting companies and future[edit]

Ardour Digital Audio Workstation V5 0 Download Free Version 10

SAE Institute provided corporate support for Ardour up until February 2009. The aim of the initiative was to provide a more integrated experience on Mac OS X and the development of a version tailored towards beginner students.[citation needed]

Solid State Logic employed Paul Davis to work full-time on Ardour during the development of version 2. This support lasted through to the end of 2006.[citation needed]

Harrison Audio Consoles has been a supporter of the Ardour project since early 2005. Harrison's 'Mixbus' DAW and their destructive film dubber, the Xdubber, are based on Ardour. Mixbus extends Ardour to add Harrison's own DSP and a more console-like workflow. The Xdubber serves as a customizable platform for enterprise-class digital audio workstation (DAW) users.[citation needed]

Waves Audio privately support Ardour development in 2009[citation needed]. The company also developed the Waves Track Live software [5] in collaboration with Ardour developers,[6] with most of the source code changes becoming part of the Ardour codebase.

See also[edit]

  • JACK Audio Connection Kit, a real-time low latency audio server.

Notes[edit]

Ardour Digital Audio Workstation V5 0 Download Free Windows 10

References[edit]

  1. ^'Ardour is licensed under the GNU Public License v2'.
  2. ^'Ardour review'.
  3. ^{{cite web url=https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/blob/master/libs/ardour/ardour/plugin_types.h#L24%7Ctitle=plugin_types.h{{
  4. ^'Using Windows VST Plugins on Linux'.
  5. ^'Introducing Waves Tracks Live'.
  6. ^'Waves Tracks Live Review'.

Articles[edit]

  • Hinkle-Turner, Elizabeth (September 2009). 'Ardour et al., or Free and Easy Laptop Pro Audio: An Essay Perspective from a desperate working mother composer'. eContact! 11.3 — Open Source for Audio Application. Canadian Electroacoustic Community.
  • Nettingsmeier, Jörn (September 2009). 'Ardour and Ambisonics: A FLOSS approach to the next generation of sound spatialisation'. eContact! 11.3 - Jörn Nettingsmeier - Ardour and Ambisonics. Canadian Electroacoustic Community.

External links[edit]

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